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Johnny Manziel interview: ‘I am sitting on a couch being a loser’

In an interview with “Good Morning America” that aired Monday, former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel disclosed that he is bipolar and spoke of his battles with alcohol and depression.

Johnny Manziel tells an ABC news reporter that he is bipolar and is taking medication for the condition. The former Texas A&M and Cleveland Browns quarterback also said he wants to make a comeback. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

“It’s been a huge downfall, and I have no one to blame but myself,” he said. “I had a sense of entitlement about what I had accomplished at that age.”

Manziel said he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder “about a year ago.” He said he is taking medication for it.

The 2012 Heisman winner, the first freshman to win the award, has been spending time in College Station and attended the Kentucky-Texas A&M basketball game on Saturday.

Manziel said he has stopped drinking, saying that he had used alcohol as a way of “self-medicating” as he battled depression.

“At the end of the day I can’t help that my wires are a little bit differently crossed than yours, I can’t help my mental makeup of the way that I was created,” Manziel said. “But I know if I stay on these meds and I continue to do what I am doing right now.

“I think my dad, my mom, I think [girlfriend Bre Tiesi], would all agree that they see a drastic change.”

Manziel said he understands his own choices got him into trouble.

“I was self-medicating with alcohol. That’s what I thought would make me happy and get out of that depression,” he said. “When I would wake up the next day after a night like that, going on a trip like that, and you wake up the next day and that is all gone, that liquid courage, or that liquid … sense of euphoria that is over you, is all gone.

“You are left staring at the ceiling by yourself, and in that depression and back in that hole, that dark hole of sitting in a room by yourself, super depressed, thinking about all the mistakes you made in your life. What did that get me? Where did that get me except out of the NFL? Where did that get me? Disgraced?”